What You've All Been Waiting For

As some of you know, I have recently started playing super mario bros. But since spence has been spending time playing basketball and he's been gone alot, I thought i would expand my horizon, and so oone night spence had his NHL 2010 EA sports 2010 (for those that will surely want to go get it after this post) and I firgured what the heck, let's try it. by the way, the game has such great graphics and they have spent so much detail in the creatoin of the game.

And if any of you want to play a game, let me know. I've got a head set and have an online ID, so add me. I'm up to play anytime, except when spence is nagging me to hang out with him, or wants me to come to bed with hiim at the same time and doesn't mwant me staying up and playing video games. Little does he know I sneak out and play until 5am usually.

So first thing I had to do was upload the current roster. Then I chose a team to start my season with. I coudlnt decide between a few teams since I haven never thought it's really fair to pick a really good team, it seems so cheap. I like to pick a team and start from the bottom up. It's also hard for me because I love the Flames and so sometimes it feels like Im' cheating on them when I chose another team. So i ended up going with the Chicago Blackhawks.

So in the past few days I have played a lot and my team is in the playoffs!! What is really crazy is that these teams are going to be facing each other in the playoffs, and so maybe my game will be telling. I guess you'll just have take'er easy, sit back, and read....




PLAYOFFS
Chicago Blackhawks vs. Nashville Predators.
Game 1 - Predators won 4-2. Not a strong start for Huet.
Game 2 - Predators win again 3-1. better for Huet, but the guys can't bring it together to get a decent shot on net. Series 2-0
Game 3 - Hawks finally get their act together and Sharp and Toews play a great game winning it 4-2. Series 2-1
Game 4 - Hawks have found their rythmn and looks like they have thrown Rinne off of his. After 4 goals in the first 2 periods, Rinne is replaced by ellis, good move by Barry Trotz, but too little, too late. Hawks win it 4-1. Huet solid.
game 5 - Campbell is injured from previous game and does not make an apperance. Defense lacks a little bit and Erat and Arnott make two ugly goals that get past Huet. But hawks endure and win 5-4 in OT. Hossa scored the winning goal.
game 6 - Huet has an off night and the preds are relentless and outshot the hawks every period. we lose 4-2.
Series now at 3-3

and for Game 7 a details of the game.
1st Period.
Right away Nashville sets the tone of the game as Shea Weber and Ryan Suter get physical. The hawks can take it, and have no problem dishing it back.
At 14:53 Patrick kane takes a shot on net, Sharp gets the rebound and puts it back in! Hawks now 1-0.
Their adrenaline is up and although the rest of the period goes scoreless, Hakws had 25 shots on goal while the Preds only had 12. Huet had a great save with 1:35 to go in the period when Sullivan had a great chance at a short-handed goal. No luck there and we head into the 2nd period 1-0.

2nd period.
Once again the game starts out physical.
Duncan Keith gets a penalty for cross-checking Suter. He's in the penalty box for 3:22 and now Nashville has a power play. hawk's defense was good and kept the Preds working hard. But there was PP goal with 58 seconds left in the PP and Joel Ward gets a pass from Arnott, takes a slap shot and got past Huet.
Gam misconduct penalty for slashing on Sullivan at around the 9 minute mark. 5:00 PP for Chicago.
Nashville killed the penalty off and sustained good pressure, and at the end of the 2nd it's 1-1.
Shots: Chicago 15 Nashville 13

3rd period.
Towes misses an open net on a break away with the pass from Hossa, I'm talking a wide open cage. tough one.
Sharp scores his 2nd of the game on a feed from Kane. Beautiful shot. 13:44. A snap shot from the right hash mark.
2-1.
Later in the period Sharp tries or a hat trick but comes up empty as Rinnie makes a great save. Huet has a few great saves against Hornqvist's wrist shot. Then at 4:21 Steve Sullivan bangs in a puck that was sitting on the goal line. We're tied 2-2. games goes into OT

OT
Hossa scores the OT winner off of a great pass from kane at 3:56 to win the game. 3-2 win for the Hawks.

Shots: Chicago 11 Nashville 15

Unreal performances by the Hawks. Such a journey. Stay tuned for the next round!

THANKS FOR FOLLOWING ALONG! I HAD SO MUCH FUN PLAYING. feel free to give me a call anytime to play! (as long as the husband allows it. you know how that is)

My New Loves

so this is a present that I got for christmas..and i am so in love. it is much easier to play than my parents old one I was using, and it sounds so much better. I am by no means a guitar genius or anything, but I love playing and just messin around on it.



this is a hideous picture of me rockin out. but i thought it was so cute cuz Chuck is on my shoulder. WE do duets. The first time I heard him chirp/sing was when I played a song.



this is the game i got for my bday from spence. only problem is, we don't have a wii..and all the stores we called to are sold out..go figure. so I have been to my in laws house and recently just passed the game! But it is so fun cuz you can play with four people doing super mario bros. it's hilarious. so if anyone is up for it, I'm there. you supply the wii, I supply the game, and my sweet skills.



I was a bit spoiled this year for christmas and got everything i wanted. Spence surprised me with this lil baby. She has worked like a charm and I am loving having one in my house. So next pics are what we've accomplished together in the past few months.



my first ever little blanket. not perfect AT ALL. Note the video game controller beside...


this one ended up being a little long and skinny...ran out of fabric after that. oh well



if you look closely at this one, you will notice that i have cheated. I have not yet finished the border, and there are still pins in it..i'll finish it one day!



This is spence's 'video game blanket' that I made him for his bday. he needed a new one, and I had the fabric around and needed an idea for his bday, and so it was perfect. I was just glad he liked it!





this was just a little project that came up out of the blue one day, and I worked non stop till it was finished. I forgot to take a 'before' picture, but anyone that has been to my place, or even my mom's a long time ago, it's these gross grey chairs that make you sink (still does, i'm working on it though) and so I decided to recover it. It's not perfect, like many things I do, but I just love it way more! It is a little crazier than I thought it was going to be, but I'm okay with that. ps ignore the huge mess all around it. i'm not the tidiest person, so live with it.



and last but not least, CRAFTS!!! this one me and janna had a craft date and got together and did these letters.



I did this one for my mom for mother's day. gong to put it up on her mantle between picture frams of all the kids.



found this on 'make it and love it' blog. GREAT site. i pretty much copy everything off of there. you take styrofoam balls, wrap hemp around them, and then spray paint them to match your colours. I will admit, it was much more tedious than I had expected and spray painting inside a one-bedroom apartment gives you an instant, long-lasting head ache.



another idea i saw on make it and love it was recovering an old pair of shoes you don't wear. so I decided wwhat did I have to lose? so I tried it. here is the before pic.



and here's the after pic. spence says they're a little crazy! i haven't worn them yet though cuz I didn't do the water-resistant modge podge, so i will have to wait till this snow clears up!

Yikes

So somehow my bishop came across my blog the other day. That was a real treat since my last post had a song with profanity in it. If I wasn't moving soon, I think he would release me from my calling since I am clearly a bad influence on children.haha.

Anyways, I was just listening to some of my brothers songs, and thought I'd post a link to his facebook page and have more appropriate music for the world to relate me to. kind of lame? maybe. Even though he is my brother and I am a little bit bias, I will honestly tell you he has some good songs. So if you want a good new tune, scroll down to 'cake'. if you want a good laugh, go to 'Be My Britney'. great lyrics.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/BenHudsonMusic?ref=ts

i am obviously not smart enough to figure out how to have this as a link...oh well. i know how to copy and paste stuff...that's good enough.

Juile's Quick Tip

Have you ever been driving and you are SOO tired that it is dangerous for you to be on the road? ya I've done that. probably should have pulled over, but sometimes when you're on your way to work, or just want to get where you're going you have no choice but to keep going. SO when all the usual tricks of turning up the music, rolling down the window or calling people just to talk has failed, i would suggest learning a rap. hahah. hilarious when I say that. But i"m not kidding.

A couple weeks ago I was driving to work and literally kept zonking out. totally scarey. but i couldn't just pull over. Luckily I had spence's ipod that day and I remembered he got the new swollen members cd so I quickly found it, and put on Lonely One. worked like a charm. windows were down (for the cold air) and I was blasting swollen members and knew every word. soo cool.

for those interested in learning the first verse so we can rap together, here's the song. but don't listen too far..there is some bad language later on. but i change the song by that point....

anyways, it's in the post below this. i don't know how to put it right in this post.

14 Lonely One

awkwad moment

I'm not a huge fan of awkward moments. Sometimes they're funny, and I can usually take it if someone I know is with me. But one of my most dreaded awkward moments is the elevator. I dislike everything about them. The only good thing is that they get me to where I need to be faster. Other than that, they are just there to put people through uncomfortable situations.

I pretty much take the elevator quite frequently because I work at a school. All my classes are in a tower, and I have come to pretty much hate it. I don't like the fact that I am squished in such a small area touching all these strangers I don't know. I'm afraid to cough, or clear my throat because most of the time it is pretty quiet in there, except for those times when people forget we are in a small space and like to have everyone hear their conversation. or hear their loud music. so annoying.

I also dislike the fact that I feel I'm being judged when I hit the button. I mean, if you're hitting the 7th floor, that's warranted. People think 'great choice in picking the elevator.' because there's no question you're taking the stairs. But when I'm hitting the 3rd floor, I know someone is thinking, 'can't that girl even walk up a few flights of stairs?' And maybe I feel I'm being judged because I judge people. When someone hits 2, I'm like, one floor? really? A, now I think you are really lazy, and B, you just wasted all of our time as we wait for the doors to open and close to let you off.

but one of my the most awkward moments for me is not while I"m in the elevator, but when I'm waiting for one. The elevators here are always jammed pakced with people. And if you get on it from certain floors, there's usually no room for you. So you press the button, wait for the up arrow to light up, and then you move towards that elevator to hopefully get on. but then it's full to the brim, and you just have to sit there and wait for the doors to close. it's inevitable that you make eye contact with the first row of people (because where else do they have to look but straight forward) and I know they're pitying me as they wait for the doors to close because who knows when the next available one is going to come. And waiting for those doors to close seems to take FOREVER. I try to look away, or shrug and give a little smile to make it seem like i didn't even want to go on that one anyway.

so lately i've resorted to taking the stairs. i even took it to the 7th floor the other day. ya, i had to take a break at about the 5th, but at least I avoided the elevator.

Doctor's Office

So I head to the dr's offiice today, and I go to sit in the waiting room. As most normal people do, I spot three empty chairs in a row and take a seat in the middle. Shortly after, this lady comes in with her sick smelling coffee and her wrinkly tim hortons bag that is making so much noise, and she just sits right down beside me. So I look up from my magazine thinking that the place must have gotten busier since I arrived, and I look around to find at least two other spots this lady could have gone where she would be sitting by no one. yet for some reason she chose to sit by me, which I can't seem to understand because i don't give off that 'welcome' vibe. So anyways, I debated actually moving over a seat so we would have one in between us, but just 30 seconds later comes in this other lady, and of course she chooses to take the other seat next to me. go figure. The worst part about it is that at least on a bus if that person is bugging you, you can pretend your stop is soon and just stand. but at a dr's office the wait is ridiculous and you end up sitting beside this person for a good 20 min.

I thought it was customary that in any public place where you are not forced to sit by a stranger, you don't. You search for a ''buffer chair''. That way you can cross your legs without bumping, people can cough without getting germs on you, and just because it's weird to choose to sit by strangers, especially in doctors offices. You never know what people could be coming in there for, and it's best just to keep your distance.

So I guess Im just saying that if you ever see me at a doctor's office, or if you see me on the bus, please, don't take the seat beside me.